Monthly Archives: March 2011

There is no shortage of tutorials available on the net for building udev rules in Linux, and I don’t mean to belabor the point here or be excessively redundant, but it’s taken me a bit of trial and error to find a simple approach that works well. Here’s a simple recipe for defining a udev rule to alias a device. Continue reading →

Purchased a four-port Keyspan USB/Serial converter to drive various RS232 serial devices via my home automation controller. Conveniently enough, Debian no longer includes the firmware for these devices due to licensing concerns (see DFSG). As of the time this article was written, the firmware was not included in the firmware-nonfree package available via apt. Fortunately, the files *ARE* included in the standard Linux kernel, and can be easily fetched and installed via git.